What will happen to historic Clifton Heights building?

8:28 AM,
May 18, 2013

Lenhardt's and Christy's in Clifton Heights

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Efforts to preserve a historic Clifton Heights restaurant failed to win the backing of the City Planning Commission Friday.

The fight over the Goetz House on W. McMillian Avenue pitted local efforts to preserve the landmark - known to have existed since at least 1892 - against owners who wants to tear it down and sell it to a developer. The developer plans to build a seven-story student housing complex.

The commission voted against a proposal to designate the house a historic landmark, which would prohibit the family that owns it from demolishing it. ...